Today in Pictures, Dec 31, 2015

Nepalese women from the Gurung community dance during the Tamu Lhosar festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, and a man makes a handmade puppet in Managua, Nicaragua, for the new year. These and more from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Dec 31, 2015, 12:37 PM

A group of Nepalese women of the indigenous Gurung community performing a dance at the Tamu Lhosar festival in Kathmandu on Dec 30. PHOTO: EPA

A man putting the finishing touches to a handmade puppet in Managua, Nicaragua, on Dec 30. PHOTO: REUTERS

People wading through a flooded street in Dumfries, Scotland, on Dec 30, after heavy rainfall brought by Storm Frank. PHOTO: REUTERS

A picture taken on Dec 30 shows a Byzantine period farmstead discovered during an archaeological excavation at the construction site of a new neighbourhood in Rosh Haayin, Israel. PHOTO: AFP

Spanish rejoneador (bullfighter on horseback) Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza performing during a bullfighting festival at the Canaveralejo bullring in Cali, Colombia, on Dec 30. PHOTO: AFP

A woman standing near mostly empty shelves in the Toys "R" Us flagship store that has closed permanently in Times Square, New York, on Dec 30. PHOTO: REUTERS

A woman sitting inside a Chinese restaurant watching floodwater race by the window in Dumfries, southern Scotland, on Dec 30, after heavy rainfall brought by Storm Frank. PHOTO: AFP

Ryan Lemm, 4, saluting as he is carried by New York Police Department officer John McCrossen as he watches the casket of his father, NYPD officer Joseph Lemm, who was killed on duty in Afghanistan, after a funeral service in New York on Dec 30. PHOTO: REUTERS

El Tropicana de Cuba dancers rehearsing for their three-day debut at the El Tucan modern-day cabaret on Dec 30 in Miami, Florida.
PHOTO: AFP

A flooded street is pictured in Dumfries, Scotland on Dec 30. PHOTO: REUTERS

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